Roseville Crime Rate: Official Data by Year and How to Check an Address

Roseville crime rate: the state's official counts, 2019 to 2025

The figures below are offenses reported by the Roseville Police Department to the California Department of Justice (DOJ). They come from the DOJ's Crimes and Clearances file on OpenJustice, which runs from 1985 to 2025 and was published in July 2026. It was the newest year-end file available when we checked in November 2026.

What made up Roseville's 2025 totals

The 319 violent crimes in 2025 were 3 homicides, 44 rapes, 75 robberies and 197 aggravated assaults. The 2,102 property crimes were 197 burglaries, 129 motor vehicle thefts and 1,776 larceny-thefts, a category that covers shoplifting, theft from cars and package theft. The same file records 44 arsons. Larceny-theft alone was 84% of Roseville's property crime.

How Roseville's counts changed since 2019

Property crime fell 33.4% between 2019 and 2025, from 3,154 to 2,102 offenses, with burglary down 49.4% and vehicle theft down 47.8%. Violent crime moved the other way, rising 23.2% from 259 to 319, mostly through more aggravated assaults. The 2023 count of 389 was the highest violent total since 2007, and 2025 came in 18.0% lower. From 2024 to 2025, violent crime fell 10.6% and property crime 9.1%. Small counts swing a lot: a change of 30 or 40 offenses in a city of about 156,000 people moves the percentage sharply.

Roseville crime rates per 1,000 residents compared

Raw counts say little until you divide by population. We divided the DOJ's 2025 counts by the Census Bureau's population estimate from the American Community Survey (ACS) 2020-2024, which puts Roseville at 155,955 residents, Placer County at 419,156 and California at 39,287,377. The ACS figure is a five-year average, so the rates are close approximations rather than official rates.

On this measure, Roseville's violent crime rate in 2025 was under half the statewide rate and level with Placer County as a whole. Its property crime rate was below the state's but above the county's. That gap is not surprising: Roseville is home to regional shopping centers, including Westfield Galleria on Galleria Boulevard and the Fountains, and retail theft is counted where it happens, not where the shopper lives.

Clearance means police closed the case, usually by an arrest. In 2025 Roseville police cleared 160 of 319 violent crimes and 493 of 2,102 property crimes. Both shares are above the statewide figures in the same file. County totals include the sheriff, the California Highway Patrol and every city department in Placer County, so the county column is a blend, not a separate jurisdiction.

What Roseville's crime figures leave out

The DOJ file gives one number per agency per year. It does not break crime down by neighborhood, street or ZIP code, and no official source we found publishes a ranked list of Roseville neighborhoods. Third-party sites that grade Roseville neighborhoods from A to F usually model their scores from city totals and other inputs. We do not repeat those grades, and we do not call any part of Roseville safe or unsafe.

Some other limits to keep in mind:

• Reported crime only. Thefts from cars and minor shoplifting often go unreported, so the true volume is higher in every city.
• Where crime is recorded. Incidents at the Galleria, the Fountains and the Sutter and Kaiser hospital campuses count toward Roseville even when neither victim nor suspect lives there.
• Calls are not crimes. The police department's own two-week activity reports count calls and incidents. For October 4 to 17, 2026, it listed 1,949 total incidents, 1,930 calls for service, 554 calls to 911, 267 case reports and 135 arrests, alongside 468 traffic stops. Many calls are not crimes.
• One year is noisy. Compare at least five years before you read a trend into the data.

How to check crime near a Roseville address

City of Roseville Crime Map

The police department publishes a Roseville crime map built on ArcGIS. The department says it gives a more detailed picture of crime than its crime log, so expect higher volumes. Zoom to the streets around a home, look at several months, and note whether incidents cluster on a commercial corridor or spread through the tract.

Roseville Police crime log and incident summaries

The Crime Log & Reports page posts a two-week activity count and written crime and fraud summaries grouped by police beat, such as fuel-tank theft on Taylor Road or vehicle vandalism on Galleria Boulevard in late September and early October 2026. The department warns that the log does not represent all crime in the city and should never be read as a complete list. It is useful for spotting scams and theft patterns, not for comparing areas.

California DOJ OpenJustice

OpenJustice is the source of the tables above. Use it to compare Roseville with Rocklin, Lincoln, Folsom or any other California agency on the same definitions, back to 1985. Its limit is that it stops at the city line.

FBI Crime Data Explorer

The FBI's Crime Data Explorer shows Uniform Crime Reporting data for the Roseville Police Department with national comparisons. Check which years the department reported in full before you compare, because partial years distort rates.

Megan's Law registry

Search the DOJ's Megan's Law website by address. California purchase contracts point buyers to this database instead of making the seller research it, so the check is yours to do.

Placer Alert and the city's open data

Roseville's public safety agencies use Placer Alert to notify the public in an emergency; sign up through the link on the city's police pages. The city's open data portal holds other public datasets. For a specific police report, file a request through the city's public records portal or ask the police records unit.

Safest neighborhoods in Roseville: what you can and cannot learn

People often search for the safest neighborhoods in Roseville, but the honest answer is that no official dataset ranks them. What you can do is build your own picture of one street:

Use the crime map for a street, not a ZIP

Look at a radius of a few blocks over six to twelve months. A home backing onto a shopping center parking lot will show more theft reports than one on a cul-de-sac half a mile away, even within the same Roseville ZIP code. Compare like with like: residential incidents such as burglary and vehicle break-ins matter more for a homeowner than shoplifting reports at a store.

Ask about Neighborhood Watch and the neighborhood officer

The Roseville Police Department's Community Services Division runs Neighborhood Watch, the My Neighborhood Officer program, Citizens on Patrol volunteers and a free Vacation House Check, which needs a week's notice. Ask the seller or HOA whether a Neighborhood Watch group is registered for the street, and contact the assigned neighborhood officer with questions about recent patterns.

Look at the home itself

The department's crime prevention material leans on Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design: lighting, clear sight lines, landscaping that does not hide doors and windows, and good locks. Walk the property at night, check exterior lighting and side-yard gates, and ask whether the home has a monitored alarm. The police department runs an alarm permit program, so ask the seller whether an existing alarm is permitted and how to transfer the account.

Flood, fire and earthquake risk in Roseville

For many Roseville homes, flooding is the hazard most worth checking. Dry Creek, Cirby Creek, Linda Creek and their tributaries run through older parts of the city, and the creeks flooded in 1986.

Roseville's flood zones and the city's own floodplain

FEMA's flood maps set insurance requirements, but the city says its own Regulatory Floodplain, defined in the General Plan's Safety Element, covers more property than FEMA's map. Check both: look up the address on FEMA's Flood Map Service Center, then use the city's Property Information Tool with the Floodplain and Creek layers turned on, or send the city's Flood Hazard Information Request, which Public Works answers within 7 calendar days. FEMA has issued preliminary updated maps for parts of Roseville, with an appeal period that ended in April 2025; they will replace the 2018 maps once final, so ask whether the home is affected.

Flood insurance discounts in Roseville

The city says Roseville was the first community in the nation to earn Class 1, the top rating in FEMA's Community Rating System, which allows property owners up to a 45 percent discount on flood insurance premiums. FEMA also reports that about 25% of flood insurance claims come from outside the 1% annual chance floodplain, so a quote is worth getting even for homes outside a mapped zone.

Fire and earthquake checks

Look up the address on Cal OES MyHazards for fire hazard severity zone, earthquake and flood layers in one search, and read our California fire zones guide. Homes on the open-space edges of the city are the ones to check most closely. Earthquake damage is not covered by a standard homeowners policy; see the earthquake insurance guide. Sellers must give you a Natural Hazard Disclosure, explained in our seller disclosure guide, and the homeowners insurance guide covers the cost side.

Before you buy or rent in Roseville: a checklist

1. Pull six to twelve months of the Roseville crime map for the streets around the home.
2. Read recent crime and fraud summaries for the police beat on the city's crime log page.
3. Search the address on the Megan's Law site.
4. Check the FEMA map, the city's Regulatory Floodplain layer and MyHazards.
5. Get homeowners and, if needed, flood insurance quotes before you remove contingencies.
6. Visit on a weekday evening and a weekend afternoon.
7. Ask the HOA, if there is one, about patrols, gates or camera systems it pays for.

For the wider picture of living in the city, see our Roseville homes guide, the Roseville neighborhoods guide for home values by area, and the statewide guide to California crime data by city.